lay

Significat

Verb

1. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
2. To cause to subside or abate.
3. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
4. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
5. To produce and deposit an egg.
6. To bet (that something is or is not the case).
7. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
8. (slang) To have sex with.
9. To state; to allege.
10. To point; to aim.
11. To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
12. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
13. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
14. To apply; to put.
15. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
16. To impute; to charge; to allege.
17. To present or offer.
18. To take a position; to come or go.
19. To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.

Noun

1. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
2. A share of the profits in a business.
3. The direction a rope is twisted.
4. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
5. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (slang) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
7. The laying of eggs.
8. (obsolete) A layer.
9. (obsolete) A basis or ground.
10. (obsolete) A pursuit or practice; a dodge.

Noun

A lake.

Adj

1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
3. Not trumps.
4. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

Noun

1. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
2. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.

Noun

A meadow; a lea.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A law.
2. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/leɪ/

Etimologia

From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).
Cognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).